Combinatorial communication in bacteria: implications for the origins of linguistic generativity.

Combinatorial communication, in which two signals are used together to achieve an effect that is different to the sum of the effects of the component parts, is apparently rare in nature: it is ubiquitous in human language, appears to exist in a simple form in some non-human primates, but has not bee...

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Main Authors: Thomas C Scott-Phillips, James Gurney, Alasdair Ivens, Stephen P Diggle, Roman Popat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3997515?pdf=render